UCL V St Andrews V Edinburgh

Hi, having had some experience in the financial industry, all the universities you've mentioned are well thought off. While ucl is in London, it does not necessarily mean it has an advantage in gaining to the kinds of jobs I presume you're thinking about. Certainly not in comparison to both edinburgh and st andrews. So perhaps you might want to consider which university environment suits you best and the quality of teaching you will receive. Hope this helps.

Student debt and cost of living are very real drains on mental health, and London isn't know for being inexpensive. Given the Scottish unis you have the opportunity to attend are both well respected, I would personally choose one of those.

Student debt and cost of living are very real drains on mental health, and London isn't know for being inexpensive. Given the Scottish unis you have the opportunity to attend are both well respected, I would personally choose one of those.

I presume you've discussed this elsewhere. Whilst all the universities mentioned are excellent, they're very different types of institutions. Edinburgh and ucl are extremely large urban universities with student numbers well in excess of 40k. St Andrews on the other hand is much smaller (around 10k students of which over 2k are postgraduates). And unlike the other 2, it doesn't cater for professional courses such as law, accounting , engineering, architecture etc. As far as I know in general it also offers smaller group teaching in terms of tutorials and seminars.
For econs, the quality of students are extremely high with entry tariffs (A levels, IB, highers etc) exceeding virtually all other universities, and it doesn't do badly in the UK rankings either! You may have heard the use of the term "target" or "semi target". This can be misleading bec all the leading investment banks/financial institutions recruit from St andrews. While it might not have in absolute numbers as many going into those industries, it does as well as any university in proportional terms. That's because there are considerably fewer graduates in economics from St Andrews compared to those universities. Hop this helps

Ah I see, that is a good point, if you don't mind me asking, how are you getting this information?

The info is available online if you spend a bit of time. Frankly even the Wikipedia page is useful especially the footnotes etc. You could of course run through the info available on rankings such as the times, guardian etc. I would however be a bit cautious when looking at global rankings. Cheers and good luck